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Phylogenetic diversity of culturable from Antarctic sandy intertidal sediments

Yong Yu · Huirong Li · Yinxin Zeng · Bo Chen

Received: 14 September 2009 / Revised: 8 December 2009 / Accepted: 9 December 2009 / Published online: 24 December 2009 © Springer-Verlag 2009

Abstract The diversity of culturable bacteria associated and frozen algae at Adelie Land near the South Pole. Then, a with sandy intertidal sediments from the coastal regions of wide variety of strains have been isolated from various the Chinese Antarctic Zhongshan Station on the Larsemann marine or terrestrial environments of Antarctica (Friedmann Hills (Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica) was inves- 1993; Bowman et al. 1997a; Nichols et al. 1999; Brambilla tigated. A total of 65 aerobic heterotrophic bacterial strains et al. 2001; Mergaert et al. 2001; Van Trappen et al. 2002; were isolated at 4°C. Microscopy and 16S rRNA gene Helmke and Weyland 2004; Michaud et al. 2004; Laybourn- sequence analysis indicated that the isolates were domi- Parry and Pearce 2007; Babalola et al. 2009). In many cases, nated by Gram-negative bacteria, while only 16 Gram-posi- the strains isolated were proven to be unknown taxa (Sch- tive strains were isolated. The bacterial isolates fell in Wve mann et al. 1997; Bowman et al. 1997b; Bowman et al. phylogenetic groups: Alpha- and Gammaproteobacteria, 1998; Labrenz et al. 2000; McCammon and Bowman 2000; , Actinobacteria and Firmicutes. Based on Bowman and Nichols 2002; Sheridan et al. 2003; Yakimov phylogenetic trees, all the 65 isolates were sorted into 29 et al. 2003; Van Trappen et al. 2004; Bowman and Nichols main clusters, corresponding to at least 29 diVerent genera. 2005; Yi et al. 2005; Yi and Chun 2006; Lee et al. 2007; Yu Based on sequence analysis (<98% sequence similarity), et al. 2008; Labrenz et al. 2009). In contrast to marine or ter- the Antarctic isolates belonged to at least 37 diVerent bacte- restrial environments, the marine–land interface (intertidal) rial species, and 14 of the 37 bacterial species (37.8%) rep- environment around Antarctica seems to be ignored by resented potentially novel taxa. These results indicated a microbiologists. Peck et al. (2006) recently reviewed the high culturable diversity within the bacterial community of environmental constraints on life history strategies in Ant- the Antarctic sandy intertidal sediments. arctic marine, intertidal and terrestrial environments. They conclude that the intense seasonal scouring by ice, winter ice Keywords Heterotrophic bacteria · Antarctica · encasement, high UV radiation, heavy salinity and tempera- Intertidal sediments · Phylogenetic analyses ture Xuctuations make Antarctic intertidal zone, possibly the world’s most physically disturbed environment. The extreme conditions do prevent resident macro-algal develop- Introduction ment, but do not prevent diatoms, bacterial and algal Wlms thriving (Peck et al. 2006). A wide range of infauna was also Prokaryotes dominate many Antarctic ecosystems and con- found to inhabit Antarctic intertidal zone (Waller 2008). trol most of the biological Xux of carbon, nutrients and However, information on the biodiversity and community energy. McLean (1918) Wrst isolated bacteria from snow, ice structure of bacteria in this area is still lacking. Our study presents the phylogenetic analysis of 65 bacterial strains iso- lated from sandy intertidal sediments collected oV the Y. Yu (&) · H. Li · Y. Zeng · B. Chen coastal regions of the Chinese Antarctic Zhongshan Station SOA Key Laboratory for Polar Science, Polar Research Institute of China, on the Larsemann Hills (Princess Elizabeth Land, East Ant- 200136 Shanghai, People’s Republic of China arctica) in order to obtain a preliminary understanding of e-mail: [email protected] bacterial community composition in this environment. 123 870 Author's personal copy Polar Biol (2010) 33:869–875

Materials and methods of denaturation at 95°C for 1 min, annealing at 50°C for 1 min and extension at 72°C for 2 min, with a Wnal exten- Sediment samples sion at 72°C for 10 min. The PCR products were pooled and puriWed with the gel extraction kit (Watson, Shanghai, A total of four sandy intertidal sediment samples were col- China), and ligated into the pMD 18-T vectors (TaKaRa, lected from the coastal regions of the Chinese Antarctic Japan). The hybrid vectors were used for transformation Zhongshan Station on the Larsemann Hills (Princess Eliza- into Escherichia coli DH5 competent cells. Recombinants beth Land, East Antarctica) during the 23rd Chinese were selected using Luria–Bertani (LB) indicator plates National Antarctic Research Expedition in March 2007. containing 100 g of ampicillin per ml, 80 g of X-Gal These surWcial sediments (0–3 cm) were sampled by small (5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl--D-galactopyranoside) per ml, sterilized shovels and stored in sterilized plastic bags 0.5 mM IPTG (isopropyl-ß-D-thiogalactopyranoside). (250 ml). Samples were transported to the laboratory at White clones were sequenced by ABI PRISM 3730 temperatures between 0 and 4°C. sequencer at Shanghai Sangon Biological Engineering Technology & Services Co., Ltd. Isolation of bacterial strains Phylogenetic analysis In laboratory, 1 g of wet sediment sample was mixed with 99 mL of sterilized seawater supplemented with 10 glass The sequences, 1,427–1,515 nt, depending on the isolate, beads (diameter 2–3 mm) and shaken at 4°C for 1 h at 300 were compared with the data available in the RDPII (Ribo- repetitions/min. The culture was further diluted (1:10) with somal Database Project II) using the sequence match tool, sterilized seawater and spread onto three diVerent marine to determine the relative phylogenetic positions. The identi- agars. These included 1/10-strength marine R2A agar Wcation of phylogenetic neighbors and the calculation of (Suzuki et al. 1997), 1/10-strength marine 2216 agar pairwise 16S rDNA sequence similarities were achieved (Difco) and natural seawater agar. The plates were incu- using the EzTaxon server (Chun et al. 2007). In addition, bated in the dark at 4°C for up to 8 weeks. Colonies from the sequences were compared to the sequences from within various agar plates were picked on the basis of diVering the NCBI database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) using colony morphologies. Isolates were obtained in pure culture BLASTN. Sequences were aligned using Clustal X1.8 after three successive transfers to fresh agar medium and (Thompson et al. 1997), with most closely homologous stored at ¡80°C in marine 2216 broth (Difco) supple- bacterial type strains 16S rDNA sequences retrieved from mented with 30% (v/v) glycerol. The Gram reaction was GenBank. Alignments were edited manually using BioEdit examined with a phase-contrast microscope (Eclipse 80i; Sequence Alignment Editor version 5.0.9 (Hall 1999) and Nikon) following the standard Gram procedure (Murray regions of ambiguous alignment were removed. The phylo- et al. 1994). genetic tree was constructed using the neighbor-joining method (Saitou and Nei 1987) with Kimura 2-state parame- 16S rDNA ampliWcation and sequencing ter and pairwise-deletion model analyses implemented in the program MEGA version 4 (Tamura et al. 2007). The Total genomic DNA for 16S rDNA ampliWcation was iso- resultant tree topologies were evaluated by bootstrap analy- lated from 1 mL of bacteria grown to late log phase in sis based on 1,000 replicates. DNA sequences were depos- marine 2216 broth (Difco) and puriWed by kit according to ited to GenBank under Accession numbers FJ195991, the manufacturer’s instruction (BioDev, Beijing, China). FJ195992, FJ195993, FJ195994, FJ195995, FJ195996, Nearly full-length 16S rRNA gene was ampliWed by PCR FJ195997, FJ195998, FJ195999, FJ196000, FJ196001, using universal primers 8f (5Ј-AGA GTT TGA TCC FJ196002, FJ196003, FJ196004, FJ196005, FJ196006, TGGCTC AG-3Ј) and 1492r (5Ј-GGT TAC CTT GTT FJ196007, FJ196015, FJ196016, FJ196017, FJ196018, ACG ACT T-3Ј) (Lane 1991). The PCR mixtures (Wnal vol- FJ196019, FJ196020, FJ196021, FJ196022, FJ196023, ume, 50 L) contained 100 ng of the extracted DNA as a FJ196024, FJ196027, FJ196028, FJ196029, FJ196030, template, 5.0 l of 10£ PCR buVer (Sangon, Shanghai, FJ196031, FJ196032, FJ196033, FJ196050, FJ196053, China), each deoxynucleoside triphosphate at a concentra- FJ889642, FJ889643, FJ889645, FJ889646, FJ889647, tion of 40 M, 0.2 M of each primer, and 1 U Taq DNA FJ889648, FJ889649, FJ889650, FJ889653, FJ889654, polymerase (TaKaRa, Japan). PCR ampliWcation was per- FJ889655, FJ889657, FJ889658, FJ889659, FJ889660, formed with an Eppendorf Mastercycler Gradient (Eppen- FJ889664, FJ889665, FJ889666, FJ889667, FJ889668, dorf, Germany), and the following program was used: FJ889669, FJ889670, FJ889671, FJ889672, FJ889674, initial denaturation at 95°C for 4 min followed by 25 cycles FJ889675, FJ889676, FJ889677 and GQ496083.

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99 Cluster Marinobacter psychrophilus 100 Marinobacter Cluster Marinobacter maritimus 100 ZS4-23 (FJ196028) Shewanella

ZS4-11 (FJ196018) Pseudoalteromonas 98 Gammaproteobacteria ZS2-27 (FJ196023) Glaciecola 50 100 82 ZS3-28 (FJ196031) Colwellia 100 ZS4-15 (FJ889666)

ZS2-14 (FJ196029) Psychrobacter

ZS4-22 (FJ889674) Granulosicoccus 99

82 ZS1-9 (FJ889668) 100 ZS1-22 (FJ889655) Sphingopyxis

ZS4-9 (FJ889676)

ZS1-12 (FJ889671) Mycoplana

100 100 ZS2-18 (FJ889672) Roseovarius

68 ZS3-8 (FJ889642) Sulfitobacter

68 89 ZS4-10 (FJ196027) Unclassified Alphaproteobacteria ZS1-30 (FJ196053?) Loktanella 100 ZS2-13 (FJ195992)

100 100 ZS2-28 (FJ196006) Rhodobacter ZS2-31 (FJ196016)

64 ZS2-22 (FJ195995) Pseudorhodobacter 100 Cluster ZS3-13 (FJ196001) 100 ZS2-15 (FJ889653) Ruminococcus Firmicutes 100 92 Cluster Rhodococcus yunnanensis

52 ZS1-19 (FJ196003) Aeromicrobium 100 ZS3-11 (FJ889646)

100 ZS2-6 (FJ889675) Kocuria Actinobacteria 100 ZS1-15 (FJ889650) 97 Cryobacterium ZS4-14 (FJ889649)

99 ZS3-14 (GQ496083) Frigoribacterium 83 Cluster Salinibacterium amurskyens 100 100 Cluster Algoriphagus antarcticus 100 Algoriphagus ZS3-3 (FJ196000)

ZS1-8 (FJ889677) Unclassified 100

ZS2-17 (FJ196050?) Arenibacter 100

ZS1-13 (FJ196015) Unclassified 78 Bacteroidetes 100 ZS1-6 (FJ889654) Aequorivita 55 ZS2-16 (FJ889665)

100 ZS2-2 (FJ196005) 56 Subsaxibacter ZS4-19 (FJ889648)

ZS3-9 (FJ889660) Gillisia 100 ZS4-6 (FJ889670)

0.02

Fig. 1 Phylogenetic relationship of the Antarctic isolates based on els of bootstrap support (%). GenBank accession numbers of 16S 16S rRNA gene homology. The tree was constructed using the neigh- rRNA sequences are given in parentheses. Bar 2% sequence diver- bor-joining method with Kimura 2-state parameter and pairwise-dele- gence. Clusters Marinobacter psychrophilus, Marinobacter mariti- tion model analyses implemented in the program MEGA version 4.0. mus, ZS3-13, Rhodococcus yunnanensis, Salinibacterium amurskyens The resultant tree topologies were evaluated by bootstrap analysis and Algoriphagus antarcticus included 8, 4, 4, 3, 5 and 5 strains, based on 1,000 replicates. Numbers at nodes represent percentage lev- respectively

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Results and discussion seems reasonable. Thus, the 65 isolates belonged to 37 diVerent phylotypes that may correspond to at least 37 A total of 65 bacterial strains were isolated from four Ant- diVerent bacterial species. This Wnding indicated a high arctic sandy intertidal sediments using aerobic heterotro- degree of inter-speciWc genetic diversity suggesting that phic conditions at 4°C. Gram-staining and microscopic several bacterial species can adapt to the physically dis- investigations revealed that 16 isolates were Gram-positive turbed intertidal environment of Antarctica. Additionally, and 49 isolates were Gram-negative. The nearly complete 14 of the 37 phylotypes (37.8%) cultured as part of this 16S rRNA gene sequences (1,427–1,515 nt) of strains were study have the potential to be described as new species, PCR ampliWed and sequenced. The results of sequences having less than 98% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity analyses are presented in Fig. 1. As seen in the phyloge- with their nearest type strains. The percentage of 16S rRNA netic tree, by depicting the bootstrap values, the 65 isolates gene sequence similarity of potential novel isolates with the were sorted into 29 main clusters, corresponding to at least closest type strains are presented in Table 1. The neighbor- 29 diVerent bacterial genera, and fell in Wve phylogenetic joining phylogenetic tree revealed that isolates ZS1-8, ZS1- groups: Alpha- and Gammaproteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, 13 and ZS4-10 formed three distinct lineages within two Actinobacteria and Firmicutes. Most phylogenetic clusters families and Rhodobacteraceae (Fig 2). were composed by only one or two isolates. From a taxo- Trees based on maximum-parsimony and UPGMA meth- nomically conservative point of view, two strains sharing ods showed essentially the same topology. Strains ZS1-8, less than 97% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity belong ZS1-13 and ZS4-10 had 93.3, 94.2 and 94.2% 16S rRNA to diVerent species (Wayne et al. 1987; Stackebrandt and gene sequence similarities, respectively, with their nearest Goebel 1994). But based on almost full length, high quality neighbors (Table 1). The reasonable threshold value of 16S sequences, this value could be set as high as 98.7–99% rRNA gene sequence similarity for genus is 95% (Yarza (Stackebrandt and Ebers 2006). In this study, the “lower cut et al. 2008; Tindall et al. 2009). Therefore, according to oV window” of 98% gene sequence similarity for phylotype phylogenetic analyses, strains ZS1-8, ZS1-13 and ZS4-10

Table 1 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities of potential novel species isolates with the closest type strains Genus Isolate Closest type strain 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (%)

Alpha-proteobacteria Pseudorhodobacter ZS2-22T Pseudorhodobacter ferrugineus IAM 12616T (D88522) 97.9 ZS3-13T (FJ196001) Pseudorhodobacter ferrugineus IAM 12616T (D88522) 97.3 Rhodobacter ZS2-28T (FJ196006) Rhodobacter veldkampii ATCC 35703T (D16421) 96.5 Roseovarius ZS2-18T (FJ889672) Roseovarius aestuarii SMK-122T (EU156066) 96.1 SulWtobacter ZS3-8T (FJ889642) SulWtobacter marinus SW-265T (DQ683726) 95.9 UnclassiWed ZS4-10T (FJ196027) Roseovarius aestuarii SMK-122T (EU156066) 94.2 Rhodobacteraceae genus Gammaproteobacteria Glaciecola ZS2-27 (FJ196023) Glaciecola psychrophila 170T (DQ007436) 97.6 Bacteroidetes Algoriphagus ZS3-3T (FJ196000) Algoriphagus antarcticu LMG 21980T (AJ577141) 96.5 Gillisia ZS3-9T (FJ889660) Gillisia hiemivivida IC154T (AY694006) 96.4 Subsaxibacter ZS4-19T Subsaxibacter broadyi P7T (AY693999) 96.5 UnclassiWed ZS1-8T (FJ889677) Maribacter dokdonensis DSW-8T (AY960749) 93.3 Flavobacteriaceae genus UnclassiWed ZS1-13T (FJ196015) Persicivirga dokdonensis DSW-6T (DQ017065) 94.2 Flavobacteriaceae genus Actinobacteria Frigoribacterium ZS3-14T Frigoribacterium faeni 801T (Y18807) 96.5 Firmicutes Ruminococcus ZS2-15T (FJ889653) Ruminococcus bromii ATCC 27255T (L76600) 95.4

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Fig. 2 Neighbor-joining trees T 94 Maribacter dokdonensis DSW-8 (AY960749) showing phylogenetic relation- a Maribacter sedimenticola KMM 3903T (AY271623) ships of unclassiWed genera iso- T lates and their closest relatives 59 Maribacter forsetii KT02ds18-6 (AM712900) among known species. Scale Maribacter ulvicola KMM 3951T (AY271626) bars indicate sequence diver- T Maribacter orientalis KMM 3947 (AY271624) gence. a Flavobacteriaceae 64 T strain ZS1-8T, b Flavobacteria- Maribacter aquivivus KMM 3949 (AY271625) 99 T T ceae strain ZS1-13 , c Rhodob- Maribacter arcticus KOPRI 20941 (AY771762) T acteraceae strain ZS4-10 91 Maribacter antarcticus CL-AP4T (EU512921)

93 Pibocella ponti KMM 6031T (AY576654) ZS1-8T (FJ889677)

99 Zobellia uliginosa ATCC 14397T(M62799)

62 Zobellia galactanivorans DsijT (AF208293)

100 Zobellia russellii KMM 3677T (AB121976)

80 Zobellia amurskyensis KMM 3526T (AB121974)

0.005

b 99 Salegentibacter salinarum ISL-4T (EF612764) 100 S. agarivorans KMM 7019T (DQ191176)

T 79 Salegentibacter mishustinae KMM 6049 (AY576653) T 91 Salegentibacter salarius ISL-6 (EF486353) 96 Zunongwangia profunda SM-A87T (DQ855467) Salinimicrobium terrae YIM C338T (EU135614)

T 100 Salinimicrobium xinjiangense BH206 (EF520007) Leeuwenhoekiella blandensis MED217T (AANC01000011) Leeuwenhoekiella aequorea LMG 22550T (AJ278780) 100 T 62 Leeuwenhoekiella marinoflava LMG 1345 (AF203475) 67 ZS1-13T (FJ196015)

Stenothermobacter spongiae JCM 13191T (DQ064789) T 100 Nonlabens tegetincola UST030701-324 (AY987349) Persicivirga dokdonensis DSW-6T (DQ017065) 91 100 Persicivirga xylanidelens SW256T (AF493688)

0.01

c 99 Sulfitobacter pontiacus ChLG-10T (Y13155)

T 100 Sulfitobacter mediterraneus DSM 12244 (Y17387) Sulfitobacter dubius KMM 3554T (AY180102)

T 100 Sulfitobacter delicatus KMM 3584 (AY180103) 51 Roseovarius nubinhibens ISMT (AF098495)

T 97 Roseovarius aestuarii SMK-122 (EU156066) 61 Leisingera methylohalidivorans MB2T (AY005463)

T 100 Phaeobacter inhibens T5 (AY177712)

T 96 Thalassobius mediterraneus DSM 12244 (Y17387) 96 Shimia marina CL-TA03T (AY962292)

ZS4-10T (FJ196027) Jannaschia cystaugens CECT 5294T (AJ631302) 69 Jannaschia donghaensis DSW-17T (EF202612) 76 70 Jannaschia seohaensis SMK-146T (EU156... 94 Jannaschia seosinensis CL-SP26T (AY906862)

T 64 Jannaschia helgolandensis Hel 10 (AJ438157)

T 99 Jannaschia rubra 4SM3 (AJ748747)

0.005

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